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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1960
Page
18
Voters at Copernicus Junior High School faced a mayoral election disruption as a skunk entered the heating room near the ventilating opening. An officer shot the animal and released its odor into the ducts while 900 students were sent home. Election workers and voters endured the lingering smell as cleanup occurred.
A new nationwide protest call from Dr. Vivian Henderson spurs more than 500 Negroes in Nashville to boycott downtown firms and forgo Easter finery to pressure desegregation of lunch counters. Reports detail sit ins in Birmingham, library arrests in Memphis, and violent incidents in Greensboro and Oregon, linking racial tensions from coast to coast.
Rioting African and white clashes erupt around Cape Town and Nyanga with the stabbing death of Constable Mokosolo and two white officers wounded. Armored cars and riot squads patrol Nyanga to quell defiance as work stoppages bite Cape Peninsula industry. Riots also flare in Johannesburg and Durban with arrests for incitement and pass law protests.
Eighteen people were hurt when two G R Wood Co buses collided on the Philadelphia Glassboro run in Barnsboro New Jersey. A car cut sharply in front of the northbound bus forcing a swerve into the southbound vehicle. One bus struck a pole and the other hit a tree. Driver George Duncan 37 of Glassboro suffered critical injuries along with passenger David Stavenson 32 of Barnsboro.
Kansas City readers urged to test a Doctor’s Invention for reducible rupture for 30 days at no cost. The offer includes a $3.50 truss and a $4.40 separate truss, with safety to return if not satisfied. Address and phone details provided for trial requests.
DeSoto markets a long lasting, durable car with a torsion-bar suspension and a robust engine. The copy promises a timeless, youthful feel and modern styling that will remain appealing for years, urging readers to visit their Plymouth-De Soto dealer.
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